Was there a conclusion on if it will have anything withheld?
1pm news – ‘Oh no, the room it was put in mysteriously burned down by accident.’
If they find no wrong doing, it’s done, right? The laws are not the same for everyone. We know that the powerful will actively be protected by the police authority. I know it’s kind of already the case, but there is at least a thin layer of hope remaining.
We found REDACTED that several REDACTED had REDACTED REDACTED. At the time REDACTED etc
Genuine question, what happens if she finds no evidence of wrongdoing?
If Dom drips more lockdown party info that isn’t included in the report- then the report hasn’t done it’s job and the saga continues. If Dom has run out of material, then will Boris actually last out the news cycle?
I can’t believe Boris >!took a poo!< in the garden after raiding the >!minifridge and banging lines off an interns head!<
*’You’re not gonna believe this but we lost the report seconds after getting it, and the backups. Also, we lost the computer that held the files and Sue’s dog ate the paper backups. coincidentally we also lost Sue.’*
Once the *whole thing* is delivered to the public, until then this is a cover-up.
We want the whole thing. Not just the bits the accused wants us to see.
Utter nonsense. A report delivering findings on parties the report isn’t allowed to mention?
The state of corruption at play here, it’s in plain sight and everyone seems OK about it.
The Met didn’t want anything to do with this until the crooks at No. 10 realised they could use it to cover up their investigation.
Long gone are the days where the police stood for justice. This country is corrupt and it fucking stinks.
So I’m guessing something along the lines of “the culture in Downing Street promoted perhaps a little too much emphasis on sharing a bottle of champagne when a department did well. There were so many successes from Brexit, to vaccines, to jobs that more celebrating took place than unusual. In future, department success will be rewarded financially so as not to promote an unhealthy drinking culture within Government. The rest of the report may be revealed after the Met investigation expected to be revealed early 2025”
In other news Sue Gray appointed as life peer to the lords and will now be known as Lady Sue Gray.
I’m Mad As Hell And I’m Not Gonna To Take This Aymore! – Network (1976)
The Prime Minister ███████████████████████████ did ██████████████████████████████████████ nothing ████████████████████ wrong.
“Oh, terribly sorry everyone. We accidentally lost Soozer’s report when we dropped it in water, then a roaring fire, then we fed the ashes of it to Larry the Cat. Then we took Larry’s shit and dipped it in hydrofluoric acid. Bumbling Boris, at it again, aren’t I? Hahaha!”
“*Of course they’ll believe me, don’t you know that the less cash you have, the more your intelligence degrades? They taught me that one in Eton.*”
> Putting in an initial couple of calls, my understanding is **a version of her report** has gone into Downing Street but one **that takes account of that request from the Metropolitan Police for minimal reference to be made in her report relevant events that the police are investigating**
Fuck off Met. Publish it all.
Is anyone actually expecting this to not be a joke?
Whitewash time. It will be interesting to see exactly what the Met have allowed them to include though, I suppose.
Any bets on how long it will take before we hear “The British public want us to move on” and “we have drawn a line under this matter”?
What dead cats will be deployed before or shortly after the report is released?
This has been such a shitshow, and continues to be a shitshow. The report has been delayed multiple times, then the Met Police decided to do a u-turn right before the full report was going to come out, stalling said full report. Now weeks later we’re getting a watered down version of the report.
I fear every delay and downgrade to how this report is published makes it less likely to generate critical mass, and that’s doing to make this far more survivable for Boris and his fellow rule breakers.
If the government gets away with this mountain of law breaking scandals, we’re all doomed, because it’ll path the way for far worse transgression with zero consequences.
It said she gave the PM “an update” on the investigation, not necessarily that she delivered the report.
Even if the report has been delivered, it’s going to be a nothingburger since the police have already redacted a bunch of stuff to “not colour thier investigation”.
So Boris will get to release a diluted weaksauce report saying he was a little naughty but mostly innocent, and the police will then over the coming weeks mysteriously decide to drop their investigation and nothing will happen.
I hope and pray I’m wrong and the UK isn’t nearly as corrupt as I think, but I’m not expecting anything.
Looks like the party of personal responsibility avoiding personal responsibility…..again.
Said this over an hour ago in a now removed thread (duplicate). So far it’s right –
– Report will contain nothing juicy because everyone demanded a retrospective police investigation so the Met finally threw their hands up and relented. Because there’s an ongoing investigation, any telling info has to be removed.
– Police will give retrospective fines to those who did attend parties, but won’t name them.
– Everyone involved will therefore get away with it.
The lesson being – be careful what you wish for.
The problem isn’t just how it affects the current pandemic. The bigger problem is that in the future if we have another pandemic god forbid no one is going to take a blind bit of notice of following guidance from the government.
What a fucking charade, Boris Johnson receives a fucking report on whether or not he attended a party that was illegal.
FUCK OFF I am so mad about this I can’t even express it.
I sure would love to see a V for Vendetta March on parliament if/when the full report is released.
>it’s worth noting the Cabinet Office’s very deliberate use of the word “update” today when they confirmed that a document had been passed to Downing Street. What we will see today is clearly, in her view, very much not the full story.
> It’s expected to include broad conclusions about a drinking culture, and a failure of leadership in Number 10, but the specific details of rule breaking will wait for another day.
So the ‘full’ report either won’t be published or will be months/years down the line when nobody cares anymore. It’ll be put on gov.uk with no fanfair and even when it is released Boris will be long gone anyway.
I remember my May 2020 period.
Soviet-style “this person can travel to work” pass in my pocket, marching in my retail workplace. Masks, or vaccines, weren’t a thing yet. Having to host a queue of people snaking in the high street, as we were operating on very limited capacity, coming in to buy anything except essential shopping ( compost, drawing books,paint ) and so on, while others members of the public outright using the shop for ” the day out with the kids ”
I’m just going to add Boris to a LOOONG line of rule-breakers, so no skin off my back.
“The COVID restrictions were broken in a very limited and specific way, so no further action will be taken. Now go back and buy crap from Pret”
I’ll have a tenner on:
*”Number 10 staff showed poor judgement, and while it’s likely there was Covid rules were broken, it is unclear whether this is explicitly the case and to what extent. There is no evidence that anyone deliberately broke rules any breaches can be attributed due to a lack of clarity and knowledge rather than a malicious or deliberate act.”*
*”There is not sufficient evidence to state that the Prime Minister had prior or detailed knowledge of any of the events or willfully partook in the breaking of Covid rules.”*
Redacted version being released later. Boris off to Russia first thing tomorrow morning. Coincidence that….. But that’s the Met Police for you everyone.
This whole situation just feels like they’re royalists and cavaliers that have gained control again. I can imagine Princess NutNut declaring ‘let them eat cake’!
>According to Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates, currently the report is due to be a webpage but some work is under way to see if it can be turned into a PDF too.
If it says they committed a crime, then won’t that affect security clearances? In which case a lot of people are going to be under more scrutiny than they’d like to be.
Despite the fact that multiple members of parliament should face the music, nothing will happen. As always. We’ll just continue to be governed by a bunch of criminals and they’ll go on to commit more acts of atrocity on behalf of the UK. When can the ignorant, posh, “my cake is made” group stop voting Tories? Not saying the other parties are really that much better, but the Conservative party should be abolished forever. Westminster is cancer.
While this party stuff is bad I feel it’s being used as a useful smokescreen to cover the other dodgy dealings during the pandemic and before like all the cronyism, lost money, Russian influence on politics which imo are of bigger importance and more concerning. I fear they’ll get away with this and sweep everything else under the rug along with it but these must not be forgotten.
*At least some of the gatherings in question represent a serious failure to
observe not just the high standards expected of those working at the heart of
Government but also of the standards expected of the entire British population
at the time.*
*The excessive consumption of alcohol is not appropriate in a professional
workplace at any time. Steps must be taken to ensure that every Government
Department has a clear and robust policy in place covering the consumption of
alcohol in the workplace.*
IMHO this will bolster Johnson in the Commons later but in reality the MPs in the party will be waiting for the outcome of the MET investigation. Johnson will however face some searing pressure today to resign, he is currently *under investigation by the Police.* Let that sink in for a moment.
All this redacting has done is kick the can down the road a few months.
The report is both a stitch up (which Grey admits) and a condemnation. That’s kind of impressive.
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Was there a conclusion on if it will have anything withheld?
1pm news – ‘Oh no, the room it was put in mysteriously burned down by accident.’
If they find no wrong doing, it’s done, right? The laws are not the same for everyone. We know that the powerful will actively be protected by the police authority. I know it’s kind of already the case, but there is at least a thin layer of hope remaining.
We found REDACTED that several REDACTED had REDACTED REDACTED. At the time REDACTED etc
Genuine question, what happens if she finds no evidence of wrongdoing?
If Dom drips more lockdown party info that isn’t included in the report- then the report hasn’t done it’s job and the saga continues. If Dom has run out of material, then will Boris actually last out the news cycle?
I can’t believe Boris >!took a poo!< in the garden after raiding the >!minifridge and banging lines off an interns head!<
*’You’re not gonna believe this but we lost the report seconds after getting it, and the backups. Also, we lost the computer that held the files and Sue’s dog ate the paper backups. coincidentally we also lost Sue.’*
Once the *whole thing* is delivered to the public, until then this is a cover-up.
We want the whole thing. Not just the bits the accused wants us to see.
Utter nonsense. A report delivering findings on parties the report isn’t allowed to mention?
The state of corruption at play here, it’s in plain sight and everyone seems OK about it.
The Met didn’t want anything to do with this until the crooks at No. 10 realised they could use it to cover up their investigation.
Long gone are the days where the police stood for justice. This country is corrupt and it fucking stinks.
So I’m guessing something along the lines of “the culture in Downing Street promoted perhaps a little too much emphasis on sharing a bottle of champagne when a department did well. There were so many successes from Brexit, to vaccines, to jobs that more celebrating took place than unusual. In future, department success will be rewarded financially so as not to promote an unhealthy drinking culture within Government. The rest of the report may be revealed after the Met investigation expected to be revealed early 2025”
In other news Sue Gray appointed as life peer to the lords and will now be known as Lady Sue Gray.
I’m Mad As Hell And I’m Not Gonna To Take This Aymore! – Network (1976)
[Boris in Downing Street](https://i.redd.it/p7sdocw2g0f81.jpg).
The Prime Minister ███████████████████████████ did ██████████████████████████████████████ nothing ████████████████████ wrong.
“Oh, terribly sorry everyone. We accidentally lost Soozer’s report when we dropped it in water, then a roaring fire, then we fed the ashes of it to Larry the Cat. Then we took Larry’s shit and dipped it in hydrofluoric acid. Bumbling Boris, at it again, aren’t I? Hahaha!”
“*Of course they’ll believe me, don’t you know that the less cash you have, the more your intelligence degrades? They taught me that one in Eton.*”
> Putting in an initial couple of calls, my understanding is **a version of her report** has gone into Downing Street but one **that takes account of that request from the Metropolitan Police for minimal reference to be made in her report relevant events that the police are investigating**
Fuck off Met. Publish it all.
Is anyone actually expecting this to not be a joke?
Whitewash time. It will be interesting to see exactly what the Met have allowed them to include though, I suppose.
Any bets on how long it will take before we hear “The British public want us to move on” and “we have drawn a line under this matter”?
What dead cats will be deployed before or shortly after the report is released?
This has been such a shitshow, and continues to be a shitshow. The report has been delayed multiple times, then the Met Police decided to do a u-turn right before the full report was going to come out, stalling said full report. Now weeks later we’re getting a watered down version of the report.
I fear every delay and downgrade to how this report is published makes it less likely to generate critical mass, and that’s doing to make this far more survivable for Boris and his fellow rule breakers.
If the government gets away with this mountain of law breaking scandals, we’re all doomed, because it’ll path the way for far worse transgression with zero consequences.
It said she gave the PM “an update” on the investigation, not necessarily that she delivered the report.
Even if the report has been delivered, it’s going to be a nothingburger since the police have already redacted a bunch of stuff to “not colour thier investigation”.
So Boris will get to release a diluted weaksauce report saying he was a little naughty but mostly innocent, and the police will then over the coming weeks mysteriously decide to drop their investigation and nothing will happen.
I hope and pray I’m wrong and the UK isn’t nearly as corrupt as I think, but I’m not expecting anything.
Looks like the party of personal responsibility avoiding personal responsibility…..again.
Said this over an hour ago in a now removed thread (duplicate). So far it’s right –
– Report will contain nothing juicy because everyone demanded a retrospective police investigation so the Met finally threw their hands up and relented. Because there’s an ongoing investigation, any telling info has to be removed.
– Police will give retrospective fines to those who did attend parties, but won’t name them.
– Everyone involved will therefore get away with it.
The lesson being – be careful what you wish for.
The problem isn’t just how it affects the current pandemic. The bigger problem is that in the future if we have another pandemic god forbid no one is going to take a blind bit of notice of following guidance from the government.
What a fucking charade, Boris Johnson receives a fucking report on whether or not he attended a party that was illegal.
FUCK OFF I am so mad about this I can’t even express it.
I sure would love to see a V for Vendetta March on parliament if/when the full report is released.
>it’s worth noting the Cabinet Office’s very deliberate use of the word “update” today when they confirmed that a document had been passed to Downing Street. What we will see today is clearly, in her view, very much not the full story.
> It’s expected to include broad conclusions about a drinking culture, and a failure of leadership in Number 10, but the specific details of rule breaking will wait for another day.
So the ‘full’ report either won’t be published or will be months/years down the line when nobody cares anymore. It’ll be put on gov.uk with no fanfair and even when it is released Boris will be long gone anyway.
I remember my May 2020 period.
Soviet-style “this person can travel to work” pass in my pocket, marching in my retail workplace. Masks, or vaccines, weren’t a thing yet. Having to host a queue of people snaking in the high street, as we were operating on very limited capacity, coming in to buy anything except essential shopping ( compost, drawing books,paint ) and so on, while others members of the public outright using the shop for ” the day out with the kids ”
I’m just going to add Boris to a LOOONG line of rule-breakers, so no skin off my back.
“The COVID restrictions were broken in a very limited and specific way, so no further action will be taken. Now go back and buy crap from Pret”
I’ll have a tenner on:
*”Number 10 staff showed poor judgement, and while it’s likely there was Covid rules were broken, it is unclear whether this is explicitly the case and to what extent. There is no evidence that anyone deliberately broke rules any breaches can be attributed due to a lack of clarity and knowledge rather than a malicious or deliberate act.”*
*”There is not sufficient evidence to state that the Prime Minister had prior or detailed knowledge of any of the events or willfully partook in the breaking of Covid rules.”*
Redacted version being released later. Boris off to Russia first thing tomorrow morning. Coincidence that….. But that’s the Met Police for you everyone.
This whole situation just feels like they’re royalists and cavaliers that have gained control again. I can imagine Princess NutNut declaring ‘let them eat cake’!
>According to Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates, currently the report is due to be a webpage but some work is under way to see if it can be turned into a PDF too.
Amazing.
[I’m sure Boris will release the whole thing…..](https://c.tenor.com/gfSWsxaDN78AAAAM/south-park-its-gone.gif)
If it says they committed a crime, then won’t that affect security clearances? In which case a lot of people are going to be under more scrutiny than they’d like to be.
Despite the fact that multiple members of parliament should face the music, nothing will happen. As always. We’ll just continue to be governed by a bunch of criminals and they’ll go on to commit more acts of atrocity on behalf of the UK. When can the ignorant, posh, “my cake is made” group stop voting Tories? Not saying the other parties are really that much better, but the Conservative party should be abolished forever. Westminster is cancer.
While this party stuff is bad I feel it’s being used as a useful smokescreen to cover the other dodgy dealings during the pandemic and before like all the cronyism, lost money, Russian influence on politics which imo are of bigger importance and more concerning. I fear they’ll get away with this and sweep everything else under the rug along with it but these must not be forgotten.
Report is here:
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1051374/Investigation_into_alleged_gatherings_on_government_premises_during_Covid_restrictions_-_Update.pdf
Highlights:
*At least some of the gatherings in question represent a serious failure to
observe not just the high standards expected of those working at the heart of
Government but also of the standards expected of the entire British population
at the time.*
*The excessive consumption of alcohol is not appropriate in a professional
workplace at any time. Steps must be taken to ensure that every Government
Department has a clear and robust policy in place covering the consumption of
alcohol in the workplace.*
IMHO this will bolster Johnson in the Commons later but in reality the MPs in the party will be waiting for the outcome of the MET investigation. Johnson will however face some searing pressure today to resign, he is currently *under investigation by the Police.* Let that sink in for a moment.
All this redacting has done is kick the can down the road a few months.
The report is both a stitch up (which Grey admits) and a condemnation. That’s kind of impressive.